No radiation or chemo this week. Have 40 Gy and 2 1/2 chemos under my belt to date.
Doc discovered Oral Thrush on Monday and with the throat issues I was having Doc suggested
taking the week off after I mentioned stopping treatments altogether. Throat felt like I had sand in it. Got meds for that
and is clearing up.
First it was Shingles now Thrush.
Pretty sure I will be pulling the plug on future treatments at this point and take the blood test (NavDx)
for circulating tumor DNA to see whether or not the P16+ cancer is still present or not.
Both the med oncology and radiology doc are now on board to working with me on this de-escalated
approach to treatment, just not advocating for it
So I am grateful to them both for not continuing to pressuring me
with the "standard of care" 7/35 approach. That alone caused a fair amount of anxiety knowing the consequences.
Wii check back in with the results in a couple - three weeks , fingers crossed.